Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus
Impossible means that you haven't found a solution yet . — Henry Ford
There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle. — Oscar Micheaux
Short Insurmountable Quotes
We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities — Bill Mollison
A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun. — Paul Valery
When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable. — Judith Martin
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. — Norman Vincent Peale
Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible. — Jon Jones
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. — Pogo
The future will present insurmountable problems- only when we consider them insurmountable. — Thomas S. Monson
There is no insurmountable solitude. — Pablo Neruda
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. — Barbara Sher
The tyranny of the ignoramuses is insurmountable and assured for all time. — Albert Einstein
Ways To Describe Quotes
The best way to describe myself would be...unpredictable. — Kendrick Lamar
There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. — Barack Obama
People cheat on each other in a hundred different ways: indifference, emotional neglect, contempt, lack of respect, years of refusal of intimacy. Cheating doesn't begin to describe the ways that people let each other down. — Esther Perel
Negotiation is often described as the art of letting the other side have your way. You have to give the other side a chance to put stuff on the table voluntarily. — Chris Voss
It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman
Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. — David Crosby
I am the model middle child. I am patient and I like to take care of everyone. Being called nice is a compliment. It's not a boring way to describe me. — Jennifer Garner
The process of open adoption is not discussed in the way it should be. Everyone I know who has adopted domestically has at least one tragic story. It was important to me to be able to describe those situations. — Jennifer Gilmore
You know, I'm the tough guy with taste, good friends, you know, describe me that I'm the tough guy, period, the way others do. But, you know, I'll tell you, I'm a complete wuss when it comes to my own kids. — Harvey Weinstein
The best way to describe our live show is that it's like hanging out with your best friends from TV for a night. — James Murray
What You Are Capable Of Quotes
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing. — Zig Ziglar
To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. — Alvin Ailey
Capability is the ability to better what you are already doing. Capacity is about doing more of what you are already doing. Improve your capacity. Increase your capacity. That’s progress! — Mahatria Ra
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not. — Michael Jordan
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you. — Chuck Close
Consider what you want to do in relation to what you are capable of doing. Climbing is, above all, a matter of integrity. — Gaston Rebuffat
What you are capable of achieving is determined by your talent and ability. What you attempt to do is determined by your motivation. How well you do something is determined by your attitude. — Lou Holtz
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of. — Mahatma Gandhi
What We Tolerate Quotes
What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature. — Voltaire
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run. — Lewis B. Smedes
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated. — Yolanda King
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable. — Dominique de Menil
When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it. — Lewis B. Smedes
Being who we are requires that we can talk openly about things that are important to us, that we take a clear position on where we stand on important emotional issues, and that we clarify the limits of what is acceptable and tolerable to us in a relationship. — Harriet Lerner
We don't need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity. — Arlen Specter
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. — E. M. Forster
Regardless of religion or race or ethnic background we are all human and we are all on this planet together. So what better reason do you need to not tolerate any form of violence against another human being? — Tony Bennett
When people don't understand that being uncomfortable is part of the process of achievement, they use the discomfort as a reason not to do. They don't get what they want. We must learn to tolerate discomfort in order to grow. — Peter McWilliams
Insurmountable Odds Quotes
I never feel more alive than when I'm in great pain, struggling against insurmountable odds and untold adversity. Hardship? Suffering? Bring it! — Dean Karnazes
I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us. — Khaled Hosseini
I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be. — Will Smith
As our planet faces seemingly insurmountable odds, we must find new ways to survive and thrive together. — Nikhil Advani
Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it. — Janet Hagberg
I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds, but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray
Insuperable Quotes
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable. — Thomas Troward
The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste. — Manny Farber
What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? — Jeremy Bentham
A world full of happiness is not beyond human power to create; the obstacles imposed by inanimate nature are not insuperable. The real obstacles lie in the heart of man, and the cure for these is a firm hope, informed and fortified by thought. — Bertrand Russell
Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable? — Vera Brittain
Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before. — Samuel Johnson
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible. — Henry Morton Stanley
Pride is a vice not only dreadfully mischievous in human society, but perhaps of all others, the most insuperable bar to real inward improvement. — Elizabeth Carter
Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. — Ellen Terry
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison
Unconquerable Quotes
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. — Winston Churchill
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. — John Milton
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade — William Ernest Henley
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. — John Milton
Only by binding together as a single force will we remain strong and unconquerable. — Chris Bradford
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails. — Dave Pelzer
Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. — Winston Churchill
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. — Winston Churchill
Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. — William Ernest Henley
I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. — Giacomo Casanova
Impenetrable Quotes
Lectins bind to receptors on the surface of each cell lining the gut, breaking down the tight junctions that normally make an impenetrable barrier between the intestinal contents including bacteria and ourselves. — Steven Gundry
One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny. — Gad Saad
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night. — Sun Tzu
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt. — Edwin Percy Whipple
One thing I knew about the novelist’s task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death. — Philip Sington
Successful people are able to rise above crises by relaxing no matter what the external situation. Their belief in themselves, the strength of their self-image is impenetrable armor, which protects them against shattering events. — Maxwell Maltz
The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable. — Rabindranath Tagore
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! — Bill Watterson
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity, an intellectual transition as impenetrable as the knotted space-time at the center of a black hole, and the world will pass far beyond our understanding. — Vernor Vinge
Unassailable Quotes
Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible. — Ignatius of Loyola
De-radicalization begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches. — Maajid Nawaz
The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say it is true. It is the fact that the logic of the theory is unassailable which makes it true. — Mike Mentzer
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James Baldwin
Like Achilles, the hero who forgot his heel, or like Icarus who, flying close to the sun, forgot that his wings were made of wax, we should be wary when triumphant ideas seem unassailable, for then there is all the more reason to predict their downfall. — Dwight Longenecker
It is because of our unassailable enthusiasm, our profound reverence for education, that we habitually demand of it the impossible. The teacher is expected to perform a choice and varied series of miracles. — Agnes Repplier
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend. — Richard Matheson
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. — Sun Tzu
People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy. — Andy Stanley
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Passion is a product of the heart. Passion is what helps you when you have a great dream. Passion breeds conviction and turns mediocrity into excellence! Your passion will motivate others to join you in pursuit of your dream. With passion, you will overcome insurmountable obstacles. You will become unstoppable! — Andy Andrews
I'm not in the best shape, but I want to prove to myself I can do something that seems insurmountable and inspire others by showing them no matter where they are in their fitness goals, they can do it, too. — Ruben Studdard
Life is an obstacle course. You succeed at one thing and then you move on to the next. When an obstacle is tough, you try harder. When an obstacle is insurmountable, you change course. But you never sit down and refuse to finish. — Bethenny Frankel
What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. — Kin Hubbard
God is no longer an explanation of anything, but has instead become something that would itself need an insurmountable amount of explaining. — Douglas Adams
If the work of our sanctification presents us with difficulties that appear insurmountable, it is because we do not look at it in the right way. In reality, holiness consists in one thing alone, namely, fidelity to God's plan. And this fidelity is equally within everyone's capacity in both its active and passive exercise. — Jean-Pierre de Caussade
And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up. — Stedman Graham
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except
from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose. — Elbert Hubbard
Few diseases present greater difficulties in the way of diagnosis than malignant endocarditis, difficulties which in many cases are practi- cally insurmountable. It is no disparagement to the many skilled physicians who have put their cases upon record to say that, in fully one-half the diagnosis was made post mortem. — William Osler
There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore. — Jared Padalecki
It has always amazed and humbled me to how the risk to bloom can seem so insurmountable beforehand and so inevitably freeing once the threshold of suffering is crossed. — Mark Nepo
When you play from the heart,
all of a sudden there's no gravity.
You don't feel the weight of the world,
of bills, of anything.
That's why people love it.
Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear,
and instead of problems you get possibilities. — Carlos Santana
Many people who gain recognition and fame shape their lives by overcoming seemingly insurmountable obstacles, only to be catapulted into new social realities over which they have less control and manage badly. Indeed, the annals of the famous and infamous are strewn with individuals who were both architects and victims of their life courses. — Albert Bandura
Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable. — Albert Einstein
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year. — Alistair Cooke
If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings. — Hunter Lovins
The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society. — Thomas Malthus
Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable. — Chanakya
Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. — Asa Gray
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. — Tom Stoppard
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something that at the moment transcends imagination, seemingly absolutely insurmountable, so absurd in terms of the Himalayan conditions that up beautiful. — Wojciech Kurtyka
My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act. — Narendra Modi
No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey. — Heber J. Grant
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the earth's gravity — Forest Ray Moulton
Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived. — Charles Caleb Colton
The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. — Sam Harris
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I think people should think a million times before they give birth. The guilts of motherhood were the worst guilts in the world for me. They were really insurmountable. You see, you are depriving another human being of so many things, and the other party also knows it. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
What barrier is so insurmountable as silence? — Marcel Proust
There is really no insurmountable barrier save your own inherent weakness of purpose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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